David Drummond on Designing Ripping Down Half the Trees
This is a poetry collection about the cruelty of life in Sioux Lookout - northern Ontario. It deals with racial injustice and what happens to the under privileged when the modern world oppresses people and the environment. The challenge for me was to find of way of representing environmental degradation, with its impact on people, it a new way, without resorting to visual tropes, such as a photograph of a clear cut.